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Andrey Kuraev
Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kuraev (Russian: Андре́й Вячесла́вович Кура́ев; born 15 February 1963) is a Russian theologian, philosopher, publicist, blogger, and missionary. Since 3 April 2024, he has been a Protodeacon of the Church of Constantinople (since July 2024, a clergyman of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Lithuania).
Kuraev is the author of the first textbook on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture. He was formerly protodeacon of the Church of Archangel Michael in Troparevo of the Diocese of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On 29 December 2020, by decision of the Moscow Diocesan Court, Kuraev was defrocked, which came into force after the decision's approval by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' on 28 April 2023. Kuraev himself did not recognize the decision, citing the fact that at the time of his defrocking, he was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Diocese and, as a result, the decisions of Patriarch Kirill as the ruling bishop of the Moscow Diocese do not apply to him. On 3 April 2024, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople reinstated his ecclesiastical rank.
Kuraev's father, Vyacheslav Kuraev, was the secretary of the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Pyotr Fedoseyev.
In high school, Kuraev published the wall newspaper Atheist. He was a member of the Komsomol since 1977 and a member of the Philosophical Society of the USSR since 1982.
By Kuraev's own admission, his conversion to faith was influenced by his acquaintance with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in his third year at university, and in particular with the novel The Brothers Karamazov and the "legend of the Grand Inquisitor" included in it.
In 1984, Kuraev graduated with honors from Moscow State University.
In 1985, Kuraev fulfilled his long-held desire and entered (on the recommendation of Archpriest Georgy Breyev) the Moscow Theological Seminary, where he studied until 1988. His admission was influenced by the specialist in Old Russian literature Vyacheslav Grikhin, who had previously prepared Kuraev for admission to Moscow State University. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1992. From 1988 to 1990 he studied at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Bucharest.
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Andrey Kuraev
Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kuraev (Russian: Андре́й Вячесла́вович Кура́ев; born 15 February 1963) is a Russian theologian, philosopher, publicist, blogger, and missionary. Since 3 April 2024, he has been a Protodeacon of the Church of Constantinople (since July 2024, a clergyman of the Exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Lithuania).
Kuraev is the author of the first textbook on the Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture. He was formerly protodeacon of the Church of Archangel Michael in Troparevo of the Diocese of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church.
On 29 December 2020, by decision of the Moscow Diocesan Court, Kuraev was defrocked, which came into force after the decision's approval by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' on 28 April 2023. Kuraev himself did not recognize the decision, citing the fact that at the time of his defrocking, he was no longer under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Diocese and, as a result, the decisions of Patriarch Kirill as the ruling bishop of the Moscow Diocese do not apply to him. On 3 April 2024, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople reinstated his ecclesiastical rank.
Kuraev's father, Vyacheslav Kuraev, was the secretary of the director of the Institute of Philosophy of the USSR Academy of Sciences and member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Pyotr Fedoseyev.
In high school, Kuraev published the wall newspaper Atheist. He was a member of the Komsomol since 1977 and a member of the Philosophical Society of the USSR since 1982.
By Kuraev's own admission, his conversion to faith was influenced by his acquaintance with the works of Fyodor Dostoevsky in his third year at university, and in particular with the novel The Brothers Karamazov and the "legend of the Grand Inquisitor" included in it.
In 1984, Kuraev graduated with honors from Moscow State University.
In 1985, Kuraev fulfilled his long-held desire and entered (on the recommendation of Archpriest Georgy Breyev) the Moscow Theological Seminary, where he studied until 1988. His admission was influenced by the specialist in Old Russian literature Vyacheslav Grikhin, who had previously prepared Kuraev for admission to Moscow State University. He graduated from the Moscow Theological Academy in 1992. From 1988 to 1990 he studied at the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at the University of Bucharest.
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